PSA Counterfeit 1tb SSDs being sold on Amazon

[man114]

These drives are being sold on Amazon, maybe $10-20 cheaper than you can buy a more known brand So not unheard of cheap to suggest it should be a scam. I’ve used these types of drives before to speed up old laptops. Usually these types of drives are just meh drives, cacheless cheap and not terribly fast, much like WD greens. These appear to be an outright fake. I bought 3 and they seem to work initially. Two of them reported a really odd size in drive management, approximately 1000.3gb. The other was a more standard 953.9gb.

when writing to the drive somewhere around 200gb (not even 240gb) the drives fail to write and brick with either a 0 byte raw or are completely unrecognized or show a drive letter with no capacity. I’ve been unable to get one recognized far enough to see if I can recover it to see what the actual size is. The board looks well enough made but the chips are brazed so you can’t tell what they are or who made them. Back label has some interesting “English” the serial numbers were indeed different so they’re not just generic. It’s not just a bad batch either, one shipped direct from the company, the other two from Amazon. 

[IkeaGnome]

Are you enjioying the warramtu serice?

[Fasauceome]

"tear up the label, you will ont be able to enjioy the waarramtu serice"

 

Gold

[Moonzy]

"tear up the label, you will ont be able to enjioy the waarramtu serice"

 

[CommanderAlex]

1 minute ago, IkeaGnome said:

Are you enjioying the warramtu serice?

Serice is top ontch. 11/10.

[dizmo]

I. Am. Shocked.

But I mean, really, this is why you don't cheap out on something as crucial as storage with unknown companies.

PSA is appreciated for those that for some reason decide the $20 is worth it to try though.

[GuiltySpark_]

I'm not sure why someone would buy something like this in the first place, to be completely honest. Asking to be scammed. Samsung, Intel, Sabrent, WD.. a handful of others. Trusted brands. 

[man114]

22 minutes ago, rickeo said:

I'm not sure why someone would buy something like this in the first place, to be completely honest. Asking to be scammed. Samsung, Intel, Sabrent, WD.. a handful of others. Trusted brands. 

They’re plenty fast for less frequently used games you don’t feel like redownloading. If it saves $20 it saves $20, you just make sure you buy them somewhere you can get your money back easily. 
 

Sometimes they’re halfway decent, I got a pair of Torosus 480gb ones that were just relabeled tc sunbows with dram cache.

[CerealExperimentsLain]

That FCC logo looks like it was hand drawn. o.O;;;

Better make use of that 'limted' warranty.